Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-24
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for want OF patronage.
Fletcher has a spring that possesses vol7,.
bic medicinal qualities. -.
Senator Robinson, the nominee for supreme
Judge, is A years OF age.
The Methodists of Vinton have let the con-
tract for a 81 600 cnurch.
The new Catholic church at New Vienna
was dedicated Wednesday.
Storm Lake will vote on the proposition 10
aid The new railroad Sept. 81.
A Hindoo wedding was a recent attraction
Ia the Methodist church nj Marion.
The Union Labor parry will not fuse with
the Democrats at Dubuq ie this fall.
Davenport will present a bill to the legtsla-
Cure asking a change Of Its sewerage system.
Creston's fire company com implicitly vanQui,h
ca everything at the Firemsn's tournament at
Red Oak.
Twelve mutes left Dubuque to attend the
FAIL term OF the deaf and uumb institute at
Council Bluffs.
q. ii. Peet, of Ramsey, was arrested Tues.
day charged with incest, and confined IL the
iail ut Algona.
Al IF ri Is being made at Council Bluffs
20 organize n boy church choir. Omaha has
hree such choirs.
Many farmers OF lows are dehorniDg their
cattle. The operation is said TO be attended
With but Iitrle d ri culty.
Hon. A. b Nurse, the successor OF Judge
Cooley rs supreme judge OF Michigan, is visit
lop his parents at Beimoud.
A conference # Methodist ministers AMI
Il ymen, numbering several hundred, will be
held at Clinton October S
About lao men were ia Des Meines Satur-
lay TO enter The land In Woodbury. and Ply
mouth countles, which have been declared
forfeited by the Sioux City and st. Paul
reads.
The Governors Greys and The gubernatoriai
party met with . big reception at Philadei.
hi,. they were met at the depot by one Of
he state companies and escorted to their
| motel amid rounds Of cheers from 100, 900 PEG.
pie Who Iiped the streets.
According To the state auditors report the
total number Of youths in the state Is 63s,
159 for whom on the % ger cent. basis too
amount of a p~ortionment IL 1922, 63l &c. This
amour, Is met by the interest Que AS per sec
ZION 1882, amounting To- s1t7 $50 So, added TO
be emounL on The state loans amounting to
ST. $50 80.
Cute 8 good deal Of interest has been
awakened In Mason Ciy over the trial OF D
aw SUR befores ~isst'ce Of the peace, in which
EEiiy X Harris sued the thirteen graduates
oi the high echooi for Dam ges 20 "a pIeno
used az the last graduating exercises. The
rial oLcupied q who,e day sud the justice
rendered a judgment against the plaintiff for
COSTS.
Ar sp ltcation was fled at Dubuque to
have xix OF the ss~loonkcepers against whom
tsmporary iniuuctions were recently granted
Judge Key, punished for contempt OF court,
their saloons closed and fixtures seized. The
ali tayits were made by The original plaintiffs.
JUICE Couch said he would not hear the in-
functions for six weeks, SO the saloons will
continue running.
The following Iowa pensions were granted
saturday + IL. Stevens, Oiin; j. W. Bsiiy,
Foudt; Urlah Jennings, Troy Mills; John
BenIz, Cedar Fails. Increase: 7. L.. Hen
derson, Atlantic; VI. G.. FannIn, K"okuk; E.
L. DeIicsson, Des Moines; James Bceks,
aershalitown; Walter JAMESON, Brandon.
Reissue: Ell Fardncr, lou; John Devine,
Albion; John Strange, Fort Madison. Next
can war: Samuel A. Davis, Manchester.
John Kress, n farmer at Dubuque, was ar
rested for selling grapes in violation OF the
,rdtnapca vaJattpn ~ EoI1inp ,n ia. r ba
fore 8 O'Clock a. N. He was very indignant,
-aying he didn't have any time to waste
standing arouAd he had Cuisines at homer
Dubuque doesn't place a premium on early
rising.
The Knoxville man who had his watch
day, was surprised on returning home TO frd
IL awaiting him, having been sent by mail to
hls address. Thinking Capt. Brall, OF the
capitol police, had found it, lie wrote that
gentleman, thanking him for returning 1t,
cut the captain says he know. nothing about
IL.
TIE board Of supervisors at Davenport
ordered that the following taxes be levied
upon taxable property In that county for the
year 1887: A tax Of 21a mills for state reve
nCe; pa mills for county 2 mills for poor;
~ mills for bridge; ~ mills for insane; ]
mill for ecnool; 3 mills tor court house; so
ceuts on each poll: SO cents every male dog,
aud 81 ON every female dog.
A force Of l75 meo began the work of lay
ing track at GalesbarS, TUESDAY, for the
Santa Fe extension. From that point twenty
FIVE miles Of track will be constructed. Forty
IF the 1876 miles between Streator ana Fort
Madison, have been completed. On the west
end OF the extension between Kansas City
and Fort Madison, there are 5000 men and
2,322 teams employed, outside of the cor
tractors teams and their drive rs.
e. 4. Meader, treasurer Of Winniesh;ek
county, was fnu I'd deaf In . grove near De.
corah Saturday afternoon aboutt three O'Clock
The body was in a recliog position with q re-
volver In his right hand and one chamber
empty. A bullet hoe In the right tclDLle
showed the reason. Letters were found Ia
bis pocket TO the board OF supervisors, which
have not yet been made public. His deputy
asserts that his accounts are entirely correct
and his family relations were the most lov-
ing.
The coroner's jury at Pells reported that
tie death OF Mrs. Vandaven WAS caused by
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